Chapter 673: Defense (1/2)

Sam looked at the image of those people in the tent and could guess how tense they are now. He just smirked and moved his vision to the remaining places. He looked at the battle formations and the number of people that are coming.

Currently, they are outnumbered by around thirty times. There are too many enemy soldiers.

But Sam is so relaxed that he started looking for the Minotaurs with elemental affinity to finish his chess set.

He is also searching for the ghouls and other Pre-transcendent stage cultivators' positions so that he can consider adding them to his collection.

The Wights started moving along with the rest of the people in the tent as they spread among their troops.

Sam is currently surrounded from all three sides and they are making their way towards that large water ring. That is actually the first line of defense into the town. The walls are completely gone and the town looked bare and open, but he is confident in defending the town.

While the troops are led by the water element users and ice element users so that they can provide a way for them over the water ring, they didn't realize that the water ring is not the first thing they have to worry about.

Sam placed his finger on the table and traced it along with the image of a road and led it to one of the new war machines.

The machine is a large rectangular wooden box. There are a lot of circular holes on its surface. There is a large metal rectangular plate attached to it at the bottom, perpendicular to it and also to its rear.

The rectangular plate has small protrusions with holes in it. The dwarves standing there loaded the small holes with wooden bolts that looked like crossbow bolts with metal tips and took a step back. They loaded more than a hundred of them in one frame and took a step back.

By the time, Sam stopped his tracing in the mansion over the holographic image, the inscriptions that are leading to it activated and there is a faint glow over the wooden frame of the machine.

At the same time, the rectangular plate moved upwards and clashed to the rear of the wooden box.

The wooden bolts moved into the wooden box and passed through the holes of the wooden box as they shot towards the enemy troops.

But the dwarves noticed that when the bolts were shot out, they are burning with a grey flame.

The bolts moved towards the enemy troops and before they could defend they impaled into the frontliners. The water and ice element users.

The twenty war machines did the same.

The bolts engulfed in the grey flames impaled themselves into the enemies particularly the front liners and the enemies caught the grey flame and started burning.

The troops that are moving orderly and confidently are in utter chaos within a matter of seconds.

Sam made another adjustment and once again shot another round and this time, the trajectory changed and the targets are the people behind the frontliners.

A large number of enemy troops are suddenly being carpeted by the grey flames.

They are in tight-knit formations which made it easier for the grey flame to spread.

The leader of wights, who is also the commander of the troops was dumbfounded. Not just him, every person from undead who knew about this undying flame couldn't help but feel panic.

They knew the consequences of this, their troops will be crippled in no time.

Before they could react and take action, the troops are already turning undead and started attacking their former comrades.

The worst damage was done by the flying beasts. There are many bat-type beasts and the vulture-type beasts and when they caught the grey flame, they ran rampant. The riders on their backs suffered and then both of them just crashed into the troops before spreading the flame even more.

The troops that are charging forward suddenly came to a halt because of this and they are trying their best to control the situation.

”Kill everyone who caught the grey flame. Hurry up.”